No Evidence Against Teltumbde, Cops Seek Delay To Deny Justice
Huffington Post / By By Pavan Dahat
Dalit intellectual’s lawyer says the Pune Police is running down the clock on the 4 week reprieve granted to Teltumbe by the Supreme Court.
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‘Bizarre, Concocted Theories’: The Many Holes in the Case Against Anand Teltumbde
The Wire / By Sukanya Shantha
Facing imminent arrest, Teltumbde and his defenders say the case against him and nine other activists and lawyers stands on ‘flimsy’ grounds and is a ‘clear conspiracy to defame anti-caste political leaders’.
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Video: Maoist Plot: Missing Evidence?
en | 26:24 min | 2018
NDTV / By NDTV
We examine the 5,000-page charge sheet filed against so-called ‘Urban Naxals’ to find more questions than answers.
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‘Maoist plot’ in Mumbai: 12 identical witness statements put police claims under doubt
By scroll.in / Mridula Chari & Shone Satheesh
Five workers, who barely earned enough to support their families, have been arrested on charges of funding the Maoists.
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‘Police Attributed False Statement to Me in Bhima Koregaon Chargesheet’: Justice Sawant
The Wire / By Sukanya Shantha
The statement attached to the chargesheet claims Sawant was not aware of the event’s agenda and that it was organised without the police’s permission.
Retired Supreme Court justice P.B. Sawant has alleged that the Pune rural police falsely attributed a statement to him in the recently filed chargesheet against five persons arrested in the Bhima Koregaon violence case.
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“Neither the `anonymous complaints´ nor the `threats of arrests´ are new for me“
Round Table India / By Degree Prasad Chouhan
The state is continuously trying to establish a fake connection between naxals and me. I have been targeted by the state and non-state actors because of my sustained activism and my work against the feudal society, where the marginalized communities are suppressed and evicted, deprived of their human rights. This is branding and stigmatisation of Human Rights Defenders in India.
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Maoists Were Conspiring To Kill PM: Pune Police Files Charge Sheet In Bhima Koregaon Case
LIVE LAW NEWS NETWORK / By Live Law News Network
Some Maoist leaders were conspiring to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi and planned to procure arms and ammunition to wage a war against the country, Pune police claimed in its charge sheet filed in the Bhima Koregaon case filed Thursday.
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Pune Police claim assassination plot against prime minister in chargesheet
Scroll.in / By Scroll Staff
The police have accused activist Rona Wilson, who was among the five arrested in June, of plotting to kill the prime minister.
The Pune Police on Thursday filed a chargesheet against five activists who were arresed in June for alleged Maoist links in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case, ANI reported.
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False allegations against Degree Prasad Chouhan
Statement by Frontline Defenders
Following the arrest of human rights defender Sudha Bharadwaj and four others on 26 October 2018, there is an imminent threat of false charges being brought against Dalit activist and human rights defender, Degree Prasad Chouhan. The police have already implicated the defender by name in a fake letter produced by them on 31 August 2018, which they claim was written by advocate Sudha Bharadwaj. There is a clear attempt by the police to smear the human rights defender as a Maoist militant and draw a false link between Degree Prasad Chouhan and the Bhima Koregaon violence which took place in January 2018.
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McCarthyism in Modi’s India
JACOBIN / By Anand Teltumbde
Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party are carrying out an audacious campaign to arrest left activists and silence dissent in India. The country is on a path toward fascism.
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